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The reason to develop Silverlight was to kill flash and compete with Adobe. However, Silverlight hasn't been a big success and it's now obvious that if any tech

The reason to develop Silverlight was to kill flash and compete with Adobe. However, Silverlight hasn't been a big success and it's now obvious that if any technology is going to take over Flash, it's HTML5, CSS3 and JS. It seems the best move to take JS seriously for MS. By the way, Microsoft is hosting the jquery conference to come.

StrawberryFrog 17y ago
Silverlight is competing with flash as planned - read between the lines here - Adobe is concerned with "Doing it right", possibly due to competition. http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/archives/2009/07/flex_4_beta_update_1.html http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/archives/2009/07/flex_4_beta_upd... Silverlight hasn't taken over yet, and it's too soon to say it's "not a big success" - it looks like it isn't a big failure - from what I heard from Scott Guthrie's public talks, the installed base of SL is on track with MS expectations. SL3 is being pushed quite hard, MS has not given up on it. It's not obvious that HTML 5 will make Flash/Silverlight obsolete. But it's competition for sure. It is the nature of MS, being a very large company, when asked to chose between competing technologies, to choose both, so that whichever one wins out, they will be there. Hence, Javascript and Silverlight. MS has deep pockets, and in both paths is leverage existing assets to cut costs and increase developer familarity - JQuery in Javascript, and .Net and XAML in making silverlight.